The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Heavy Goods and Public Service Vehicles) Regulations 1990

Provisional standard licences for heavy goods vehicles

11.—(1) A full standard existing licence to drive heavy goods vehicles of class 2, 2A, 3 or 3A shall also be treated (in so far as it does not by virtue of regulation 16 operate as a full licence to drive such vehicles) as a provisional standard licence to drive heavy goods vehicles of a class in respect of which the holder is not by reason of his age disqualified under section 101(1) of the 1988 Act for holding or obtaining a large goods vehicle driver’s licence.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, a provisional standard existing heavy goods vehicle licence, including a full standard licence which is treated as a provisional standard licence under paragraph (1) above, shall be subject to the following conditions, which are prescribed conditions for the purposes of paragraph 3(1) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act, that is to say, the holder shall not drive a heavy goods vehicle of any class which he may drive by virtue of the licence or a large goods vehicle of any category which he is entitled to drive by virtue of regulation 16—

(a) otherwise than under the supervision of a person who is present with him in the vehicle and who holds a full standard heavy goods vehicle licence or a full standard large goods vehicle driver’s licence to drive the vehicle; and

(b) unless there is clearly displayed in a conspicuous manner on the front and on the back of the vehicle a distinguishing mark—

(i) before the expiry of 5 years after these Regulations come into force, in either form A or B set out in Schedule 2; or

(ii) after the expiry of that period in form B set out in that Schedule.

(3) The condition specified in paragraph (2)(a) shall not apply whilst the holder of the licence is undergoing a test of competence to drive large goods vehicles of any category, being a test for which provision is made under section 89 of the 1988 Act, and the conditions specified in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) shall not apply in relation to the driving of a large goods vehicle of any category where the holder of the licence has passed such a test for a vehicle of that category.